Afterage

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An age occurring afterwards; a later era.

    "And I deny also, that the teaching authority of the successors so called of the apostles was designed to be the only rule of faith in afterages."

Example

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"And I deny also, that the teaching authority of the successors so called of the apostles was designed to be the only rule of faith in afterages."

Etymology

From after- + age.

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